After joking to reporters outside the White House Wednesday, April 30 that he'd like to be the next pope, President Donald Trump later suggested a more serious − and more qualified − candidate to assume the papacy following Pope Francis' recent death.

On the heels of having his MLB fandom confirmed last week, Pope Leo XIV's sports credentials keep getting stronger after a meeting with the best men's tennis player in the world.

Faithful followers flocked to Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral to say prayers and offer best wishes to Cardinal Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo, leader of the Catholic Church.

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said on Friday he thought the new U.S. pontiff, Pope Leo, will seek to build bridges with all world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump. "Will he want to build bridges with Donald Trump?

His ancestry, traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture, links Leo XIV to the rich and sometimes overlooked Black Catholic experience in America.

The celebrated actor blends the past and the present, the South and the North, and the masculine and the feminine through vintage fashion from eBay.

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, who studied in Chicago, said in an interview Friday.

The team may have newly-elected Pope Leo XIV on its side, thanks to their shared Villanova roots, but the Celtics still blew them out of the Garden, 115-93, this weekend. The Knicks’ late-game heroics from Games 1 and 2 didn’t manifest, as the Celtics managed to make their early 20-point lead stick.

Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, was asked about the post on the sidelines of a Mass he celebrated at a Rome church ahead of a conclave where he and other cardinals under the age of 80 will elect a successor to Pope Francis.

Louis Prevost’s Facebook posts — no longer publicly viewable — suggest that he has embraced some of the most common complaints and conspiracy theories of the right.